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Margalit Fox (born April 25, 1961) [1] is an American writer. After earning a master's degree in linguistics, she began her career in publishing in the 1980s. In 1994, she joined The New York Times as a copy editor for its Book Review and later wrote widely on language, culture and ideas for The New York Times, New York Newsday, Variety and ...
Margalit Fox | Journalist, Author, Lecturer. BOOKS. Talking Hands. For the first time, a book for a popular readership takes a look at the world of the signed languages of the deaf—and explains what they reveal about how all language, signed and spoken, works inside our heads. (2007) The Riddle of the Labyrinth.
The Author. Considered one of the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in American journalism, Margalit Fox retired in June 2018 from a 24-year-career at the New York Times, where she was most recently a senior writer.
Combining deep historical research with the narrative flair for which she is celebrated, Margalit Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America’s cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.
Margalit Fox is a former senior writer on the obituaries desk at The New York Times. She was previously a staff editor at the Book Review. Originally trained as a cellist, Ms. Fox holds...
Sep 23, 2014 · In nearly twenty years and twelve hundred obituaries, Margalit Fox, a senior writer at the New York Times, has chronicled the lives of such personages as the president of Estonia, an underwater cartographer, and the inventor of Stove Top Stuffing.
Margalit Fox’s rollicking new book, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss, tells all. A big lady (upward of 250 pounds) who wore silk dresses and lavish jewelry, this German-Jewish immigrant and mother of four ran a nationwide fencing empire from a phony storefront in the Lower East Side ...
